Sikandar Hayat Khan: Difference between revisions

Sikandar Hayat Khan was born in [[Multan]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British Raj]] in a Punjabi [[RajputJats|Jat]] family.<ref>[[Charles Allen (writer)|Charles Allen]], ''Soldier-Sahibs'', London, 2000, p. 166</ref><ref>See Sir Sikander Hyat Khan: The Soldier-Statesman of the Punjab, A Special Memorial Volume, Lahore: Government of the Punjab, 1943, pp. 10–12.</ref><ref name=SOP/> His father was [[Nawab]] [[Muhammad Hayat Khan]], a civil servant and close associate of [[Sir Syed Ahmed Khan]], and his grandfather was Sardar Karam Khan, who died in battle fighting for the [[British Empire|British]] against the [[Sikh Empire|Sikhs]] in the [[Second Anglo-Sikh War]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Talbot |first=Ian |title=Punjab and the Raj, 1849–1947 |date=1988 |publisher=Riverdale Company |isbn=0913215287}}</ref>